About Kamino

Kamino is building the financial layer of Solana, with a unified platform for on-chain lending, borrowing and liquidity. With more than $4 billion in assets under management, Kamino is the largest non-staking protocol on Solana, powering the next generation of DeFi products.

Now we’re entering our next chapter: creating the consumer version of Kamino, a product that brings the simplicity and elegance of the best fintech apps to the world of DeFi.

The Role

We’re looking for a Staff Product Designer to help reimagine how DeFi feels and works. You’ll collaborate closely with our co-founders, Head of Product, PMs, and engineers to define and design the full user experience across Kamino’s retail and institutional products.

This is a high-impact role for someone who loves:

• turning complex systems into beautiful intuitive experiences,
• working in fast-moving, high-context environments, and
• owning the design process from zero to launch.

What You’ll Do

• Own the end-to-end design process from discovery and user research to prototypes, testing, high-fidelity visuals and handoff.
• Lead user research to uncover pain points, develop the right product strategy and translate insights into actionable design decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with PMs and engineers to to design best-in-class experiences for our users.
• Prototype and iterate quickly to test usability, visual delight, and conversion improvements.
• Establish Kamino’s design language. Build our component library, system rules, and motion patterns that express clarity and trust.
• Deliver world-class visual design with refined attention to detail, typography, color, and layout. Every screen should feel intentional, modern, and effortless to use.
• Stay inspired by the best of fintech and DeFi, identifying patterns and elevating them to Kamino’s design standard.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience designing complex, data-rich products (fintech, trading, SaaS, or Web3).
• A portfolio that demonstrates both strong UX reasoning and exceptional visual design craft.
• Deep understanding of user research methods and the ability to translate insights into elegant interfaces.
• Mastery of Figma and experience building or maintaining design systems.
• Sharp eye for typography, color, spacing, and hierarchy. You obsess over the small details that create delight.
• Collaborative mindset and excellent communication. You can frame trade-offs and bring others along your design logic.
• Curiosity about DeFi and a willingness to learn quickly.
• Comfort with ambiguity and autonomy in a small, fast-moving team.
• Bonus: familiarity with analytics and user behavior tools like Mixpanel and Hotjar.

Why Join Kamino

• We’re operating at scale with more than $4 billion in AUM and thousands of active users.
• You’ll work on the frontier of Solana DeFi innovation, in a fully remote European team that values autonomy over bureaucracy.
• We offer competitive compensation with both salary and token allocation.